ENVIRONMENTAL SPACE SCIENCES is a book written by Professor and Colonel
Donald G. Carpenter who was the originator of the Space Science Course
taught
at the USAF Academy. He also served as the Commander of the SPACETRACK
Radar
Site at Shemya, Alaska. Colonel Carpenter was kind enough to send Eastern
MUFON the book he edited and wrote with six other officers. He questions
some of the laws of physics if we assume UFOs are real. The last chapter
of
his book is titled Unidentified Flying Objects and reads in part.

"It is obvious that intensive scientific study is needed in this area;
no
such study has yet been undertaken at the necessary levels of intensity
needed. Something that must be guarded against in any such study is
the trap
of implicitly assuming that our knowledge of Physics (or any other branch
of
science) is complete. An example of one such trap is selecting a group
of
physical laws, which we now accept as valid, and assume that they will
never
be superseded. Five such laws might be:

1. Every action must have an opposite and equal reaction.

2. Every particle in the universe attracts every other particle with
a force
proportional to the product of the masses and inversely as the square
of the
distance.

3. Energy, mass and momentum are conserved.

4. No material body can have a speed as great as c, the speed of light
in
free space.

5. The maximum energy, E, which can be obtained from a body at rest
is E=mc2,
where m is the rest mass of the body.

Laws numbered 1 and 3 seem fairly safe, but let us hesitate and take
another
look. Actually, law number 3 is only valid (now) from a relativistic
viewpoint; and for that matter so are laws 4 and 5. But relativity
completely revised these physical concepts after 1915, before then Newtonian
mechanics were supreme. We should also note that general relativity
has not
yet been verified. Thus we have the peculiar situation of five laws
which
appear to deny the possibility of intelligent alien control of UFO's,
yet
three of the laws are recent in concept and may not even be valid. Also,
law
number 2 has not yet been tested under conditions of large relative
speeds or
accelerations. We should not deny the possibility of alien control of
UFO's
on the basis of preconceived notions not established as related or relevant
to the UFO's. Pages 690-691.

The NEW SCIENTIST article "SEEDS OF LIFE" January 22, 2000, reports,
"The
building blocks of DNA could have formed in space before the Earth was
born,
providing a starter kit of genetic material for life to evolve rapidly
on
Earth, claim astro-chemists in India. Their computer models of chemicals
evolving in space may explain why life emerged only 600 million years
after
the Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago. The model also suggests that
comets
are packed with the building blocks of life. If true, it backs up the
idea
that comets seed when they smash into planets. Sandip Chakrabarti and
his
wife Sonali at the S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences in
Calcutta
modeled how chemicals would evolve in an interstellar cloud collapsing
under
gravity over a million years. The model began with a typical cloud 7
light
years across, containing a dozen elements including hydrogen, carbon,
oxygen
and nitrogen. The computer worked out the variations and at the end
of the
simulation, the cloud was littered with adenine predicting Earth would
have
been showered with millions of tons of the DNA. "DNA produced in the
collapsing cloud could have contaminated the Earth," the Chakrabartis
will
report in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. "There should be many
such
planets in each galaxy where DNA-based life should flourish." (But the
idea
remains controversial since it shoots holes in the Theory of Evolution,
that
life started by accident on Earth.)

Tom Millar of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and
Technology, database of chemical reactions formed the basis of the new
work.
British researchers who suggested in 1977, that the ingredients of life
originated in space and were dispersed by comets are delighted by the
Indian
findings. "It's yet another indication that the chemical feedstock of
life
could be produced throughout the Universe, and nothing on Earth would
reproduce that grandeur of scale," says Chandra Wickramasinghe of the
University of Wales at Cardiff, who suggested the idea along with his
colleague Fred Hoyle. Thanks to: "Mark A. LeCuyer" <[email protected]>

DNA MOLECULES MAY BE FROM SPACE

Colin Jordan writes concerning your FF-#4, Dr. Francis Crick won the
Nobel
Prize for helping to discover 'the structure of DNA,' the master molecule
of
life. He now believes that the 'origin of life' was from space. I was
doing
some reading recently and came across some surprising statements from
Dr.
Crick, made more remarkable still given his professional achievements.
I
think there is a prejudice among scientists regarding current evolutionary
theories. Many of them have spent their careers considering the theory
to be
scientific fact and are loath to let that go. Their need to cling to
that
theory at all costs smacks more of faith than science. Besides the evidence
that there was but a single genetic code, there is also the issue of
so-called "simple" cell complexity. Crick wanted to determine the
probability that even a single molecule of DNA could come into existence
by
chance. The probability for transition from inanimate to animate would
be
ten to the 40,000 th power. Mathematically speaking, anything above
ten to
the 50th power is considered statistically impossible, because the sum
total
of all the electrons in the universe is only ten to the fifty-second
power.
Apparently the average biological scientist is more concerned with not
being
wrong rather than discovering what is true. [email protected]
(Colin Jordan)

Red Setter writes, "People today are very poor at real thinking: whether
in
astronomy, evolution, physics, UFOs, etc. We are no more correct than
in
Galileo's day, yet many scientists tell me that "we know so much that
we
can't be wrong!" And friends can't believe there is any real UFO phenomenon,
or else "the press would have reported it!" So don't worry if they criticize
you, because their brains are programmed by intensive indoctrination.
See
the new book "Galileo's Daughter" by Dava Sobel. "It claims it was academics
that persecuted Galileo, not the Church." Thanks to Red Setter.

CONNECTICUT UFO

My friend and I went out to a club, then stopped for McDonalds on the
way
home on January 15, 2000. We arrived home around 2:45 AM and pulled
into her
drive way. Since it was very cold, I asked her to keep her car running
so we
could wait inside until my car warmed up. I got out of her car, and
started
my car. As I got back into her car, I noticed a bright light went on.
I
thought it was her house flood lights turning on automatically. The
next
thing we remember was that it was 2 hours and 45 minutes later, Neither
of us
had a clue as to what happened, except for the fact we both were unconscious
for almost 3 hours. Both of our cars were still running and neither
of us
had any physical evidence of abduction. We were not drunk nor on drugs.
The
next day, I told a friend my story and they checked my neck and back
and
found a small circle of five punctures in my upper back/lower neck.
I was
told that this was common in abductions. I am afraid for my well being.
Thanks to Peter Davenport and the National UFO Reporting Center www.ufocenter.com

TENNESSEE DISC FADES IN AND OUT

BRENTWOOD -- On January 10, 2000, I saw an unidentified flying object
at
about 500 feet altitude above the Brentwood Middle School at 9:15 AM.
As I
drove along I had a totally unobstructed view of this object about 1/2
a mile
away until Murray Lane became divided by a tree line. As I drove along
the
object appeared to be keeping pace with the speed of my car. The object
then
faded out of sight. The UFO had no wings, was silver pewter in color,
and
made no noise. After turning left onto Franklin Road I saw it again
as it
flew pacing my car at the exact same distance and altitude. I had a
totally
unobstructed view of the UFO as it flew low over a farmer's field. Again
the
object faded from my view, then three seconds later reappeared. I watched
this object for another 12 seconds, until it faded from view for the
last
time. There also seemed to be an aura or hazy like disturbance in the
air
around the craft each time it faded from view. Thanks to Peter Davenport
NUFORC www.ufocenter.com

FLORIDA

CLEARWATER -- Nimlok writes, "A few years ago, I was sitting on the
back
porch of my parents house having a party with four other relatives."
It was
around 8:30 PM, a very hot but clear night. All of a sudden, we all
jumped
to our feet and watched a UFO land right behind our house in a huge
orange
grove. I saw the bright lights and colors. The others described it as
a
"sphere" that had multi colored chasing lights around the band of the
UFO.
It made no noise and then just vanished into thin air. My aunt, uncle
and
grandfather all saw this at the same time. We jumped into our cars hoping
to
get another glimpse, but it was gone. Geographically, we are in a perfect
position for these sightings and most people around this area have seen
something strange. Thanks to Tiffany Stratton

ALABAMA COUPLE SEES UFO

TILLMANS CORNER - On December 28, 1999, Lynn L. and her husband were
outdoors
in Southern Alabama when they saw a UFO. "My husband and I were looking
at
the moon, and saw what we thought was a moving star. I got out of the
car
and looked at it. Two large bright lights were in front, with a red
light in
the middle. "It wasn't a plane, since it flew over us at a very slow
speed,
and made no sound" Lynn added, "The object was at an altitude of about
1,200
feet and was triangular in shape, with green and red lights." The aft-end
was
huge. "It looked like the were two big shapes on either end of it in
the
back." After the couple drove home, she added, "Strange things happened
later
that night in my house." "I know it sounds strange but a houseplant
that I'd
had for years turned up missing that same night. It just disappeared."
Lynn
found the flowerpot, but the plant and the pot's soil were missing.
Hillmans
Corner is eleven miles south of Mobile. Thanks to UFO Roundup Vol. 5
#5
2/3,/00 Joseph Trainor editor [email protected]

ILLINOIS UFO INVESTIGATION CONTINUES

I called Peter Davenport at the National UFO Reporting Center and spoke
with
John Alexander at National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS). Their
investigation has now located eight witnesses who observed the UFO in
Southern Illinois east of St. Louis. Some of the police were chasing
the UFO
at speeds up to, 80 mph. The UFO moved very slowly at an estimated 20
mph.
Then suddenly streaked 8 miles in 3 seconds, according to the witnesses.
Craig Stevens in Milstadt saw it to the west of him seem to suddenly
jump
twenty to thirty miles. Assuming the witnesses were correct the craft
moved
at 9600 mph. The object was described as like a guitar pick with panel
of
lights red or pinkish lights. The aft-end of the craft was lit up indicating
some type of the propulsion system.

Kenny Young interviewed Craig Stevens from the Millstadt Police Department.
Craig said, "I was the Officer in Millstadt that witnessed the object
at 4:28
AM on January 5, 2000." #1 - I feel that the testimony of four possibly
five police officers is very credible, considering that we are trained
observers. Our credibility has to be justifiable since we testify in
a court
of law. We watch things on a daily basis, and have to report our findings
in
evidence, and reports. I feel I have done this by attempting to capture
the
photo that morning, and immediately returning to the department to report
my
findings in a report, and making a drawing. Sketches of the object are
shown
on the NIDS web site at http://www.accessnv.com/nids.
For detailed
investigation, sketches, route of flight see this excellent report.
Thanks
to Kenny Young, John Alexander and Peter Davenport who have all done
excellent work on this case.

CALIFORNIA FLYING TRIANGLE

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE -- Billy Dee reports that a witness writes, "Sightings
seem to be picking up again. Although. I'm wondering if it has anything
to
do with the airliner going down off the coast. The last time it was
real
active here was when the Egyptian airliner went down. On January 31,
2000, I
saw another large triangular craft over the base. It was outlined with
several very bright, non-blinking, red lights. Just like the last one,
this
one tilted to a completely vertical position and flew like this for
quite
some time. It then rotated back to horizontal, flew back and forth,
and then
descending straight down. Last night, I was watching a fighter over
the
base, when I noticed two dimly lit objects about a quarter of a mile
in front
of it. These objects were moving very erratically, back and forth, and
up
and down. The fighter appeared to maintain a steady distance behind
them as
they circled the base. I lost sight of the objects briefly behind a
tree,
but could still see the fighter's lights through the tree. I then saw
the
two objects coming out from behind the tree, still moving erratically.
They
suddenly got very bright, changing from an amber color to a bluish white,
and
literally shot out of sight to the north over the base. They disappeared
in
less than a second. The fighter did some tight maneuvering, circled
around a
couple of times, and then landed. Because of these two sightings, I'll
be
out again tonight, and well keep you informed. God bless. Thanks to
[email protected].

ROBED HOODED ALIENS

Darlene writes, "Please tell me if the suggested responses to contacts
of
this type are of the "tongue-in-cheek" variety or just plain sarcasm.
Unless
I'm denser than I think I am, I can not see why there would be meteorite
powder, silicon or other residue left behind by visitation; nor can
I believe
that such acts as contacting the police or contacting newspapers, etc.,
would
produce anything but disbelief, and ridicule. Thanks to dcs

Editors' Notes: Thanks for your note; Well sometimes a little ridicule
gives
you a boost of courage. I go on radio several times a week, and I'm
often
ridiculed over my research. To my knowledge not one abductee has ever
contacted the police or their congressman about their abductions. When
I
talk to police they act very interested and claim they would enjoy such
a
case. We have numerous police and military officers joining MUFON and
other
organizations hoping to find answers. Both Derrel Simms and my investigators
have found silver powder on abductees. We have noticed other anomalies
indicating evidence is being left behind. For any of us to be believed
we
need evidence. We now have thousands of tape recordings of abductee's
stories, but without real solid evidence they are considered interesting
dreams. We have stayed up all night watching abductee homes, spent hours
video taping, interviewing, discussing, watching videos, but little
real
tangible evidence has been obtained. We are aware the abductees seem
programmed to destroy the evidence.

Many investigators spend their time and efforts as unpaid volunteers
trying
to solve this mystery. If I pick up the phone and make long distance
call,
drive to an abductee's home, video tape, it costs both time and money.
I
encourage abductees to collect evidence or call experts in for help.
We have
indications that some abductees may be harmed during an abduction. This
can
be checked with a blood tests and a physician's examination. Most abductees
will not get tested, despite the fact they have insurance coverage.
There
are indications that black light can pick up a silver like powder left
behind, and other tiny objects. If you give credence to Dr. David Jacobs
from Temple University the future of the human race may be at stake.
I don't
think its funny, and I'm not poking fun. The craft in my opinion are
real.
We may not be sure what their aircrews are doing here. However, they
are
spending in real terms billions of dollars, their time and health to
be here.
I wonder why? I don't think it is a game for either side. More definitive
research is needed.
MARS POLAR LANDER CERTIFICATE

Aaron G. Crossley, Jr. writes, "My name is included in a data tape that
was
sent to Mars aboard NASA's Polar Lander. MSFC passed around a signup
sheet
for names to be put on the Mars Polar Lander. The requirement was that
you
had to be 18 or under to get your name on the tape so I signed up. Kind
of
makes you wonder are Martians reading my name off a datatape as we speak?
Thanks to Aaron G. Crossley, Jr "[email protected]"
You can see Aron's
Certificate at: http://www.filerfiles.com/

AUSTRALIA FLYING TRIANGLE

ENDEAVOR HILLS -- VICTORIA -- Peter Ho reports he saw a large V shaped
UFO on
January 2, 2000. Peter went outside to feed his dogs his 10:50 PM and
decided to relax and do a bit of stargazing, He noticed a large, solid
black
V shaped object blocking out the Big Dipper constellation. There were
dim
orange lights along the front of the object. He could hear no sounds.
Peter
estimates it was five times bigger than a Jumbo Jet. He sighted the
object
for four seconds before it disappeared from view. Thanks to Alice Mitchell
AUFORN Keith Basterfield Network Australia

SOUTH VIETNAM UNDERWATER UFO

GULF OF SIAM -- Joseph Foster writes, "In mid April of 1970, we were
anchored
four miles off shore on the US Coast Guard Cutter Mellon. The Captain
authorized swim call in the late afternoon and I had the watch with
a M-16
rifle on the flying bridge to guard for sharks. The swimming party was
diving off the main deck into the water and swimming to a raft. Eight
of us
and the Captain were watching the 20 swimmers when our attention was
drawn to
a large underwater object, that slowly moved directly under the ship.
The
object was an elliptical shaped dark shadow, that was by our estimate
was 90
feet in length and 30 feet wide. It was about 50 feet deep and moving
perpendicular to the axis of our ship. The entire sighting lasted no
more
than 20 or 30 seconds. The men in the water had no idea that a large
object
cruised directly under them. We ruled out whale shark or whale because
there
was no gyration of a tail or any other appendages visible.

Our crew also had other UFO sightings. During our July, we sere on Ocean
Station Victor patrol, when we had radar contact with three targets
traveling
at speeds in excess of 3000 mph halfway between Midway Island and Japan.
Eight crewman saw three white lights traveling southwest in a 'v' formation.
A sitrep report was filed. Our second sighting took place in May of
1970
while we were 600 miles east of Guam. One of my duties as Quartermaster
was
celestial navigation. On the 4 - 8 shift, I had to shoot morning and
evening
stars. I was with the Captain 'shooting' the stars, when we noticed
a bright
shiny perfect sphere that seemed to have the consistency of liquid mercury.
The object was traveling west southwest at 100 knots at an altitude
of 2500
feet.

In Honolulu, I made friends with a Fleet Intelligence Yeoman, who stated,
"We
receive thousands of UFO reports from US Navy ships." UFOs come in and
out
of the water and fly directly in front of our ships. Thanks to Joseph
Foster [email protected] and Carl
W. Feindt at [email protected]

WINDOW IN OUTER SPACE

R. G. Nicholas writes, "My girlfriend and I were lying on the hood of
my car,
just looking at the stars quietly on calm, clear, beautiful starlit
night. I
noticed four stars spaced evenly apart from each other like the points
at the
corner's of a window, it was a perfect square in space. All at once
a light
appeared at the lower right star and swiftly moved diagonally up to
the upper
left corner star. Within seconds it just as quickly returned to whence
it
had come. It moved really fast for the amount of area it had to cover
between point A and point B. I'm sure it traveled from star to star,
and
those objects that I saw traverse that amount of distance that night
were not
from earth. I'll never forget it because I was wide-awake and 100% sober.
Thanks to: NicholasRG
CHINA HAS FIRST UFO OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM

UFOs kicked off the New Millennium with the surprise appearance of a
daylight
disc on New Year's Day. At about 6:30 a.m. Beijing time on Saturday,
January
1, 2000, a silver-gray UFO appeared over the Great Wall of China. It
hovered, and was captured by Cable News network (CNN) TV cameras and
broadcast live in the USA. Eyewitness M. Lamb was watching the CNN coverage
"when CNN showed a shot of the Great Wall of China at sunrise. When
they cut
to the shot, there was a gray orb floating over the wall. Then it floated
to
the right, then up. CNN cut away from the shot without any explanation
of
the floating object. It was silver and appeared to float or glide without
any means of propulsion."

Taiwan Radar is reporting that they have been picking up Unidentified
Flying
Objects coming from China towards Taiwan at around 24,000 feet. The
latest
report was on January 29, 2000, creating new tensions in the region.
The
objects that may be balloons could create a threat to commercial traffic.
Thanks to [email protected]
(stefan duncan)

CAUS WINS FIRST ROUND IN UFO CASE

Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS) announced that, in a stunning and
surprising defeat for the government and its proponents of secrecy,
a US
District Court Judge in Phoenix, Arizona, rebuked a Department of Defense
attempt to deny a group of UFO activists the opportunity to argue its
case in
court. In the federal lawsuit, Judge Stephen M. McNamee, ignoring Department
of Defense plea to dismiss the case outright, set February 7th at 10:00
a.m.
for arguments on the adequacy of the government's search for information
about an unusual aerial object. Thanks to Peter A. Gersten; [email protected].

SHUTTLE SPOTS UFO

Investigator Tom Sheets writes, "I just reviewed the tape of a June
1999,
shuttle mission footage that was sent me via ISUR. There is a shockingly
dramatic event on there that makes all the other shuttle stuff (STS-48
and
80) look like fireflies. There is a BIG glowing orb that flies by one
of the
solar panels of either the space station or a satellite (the SS I think,
we
need a space 'expert' to look at it). This thing must be huge; it is
obviously glowing brightly, seemingly round, you can almost see the
disc
shape, and seems to give off glowing propulsion like contrail. I don't
think
it's a meteor, this is in orbit, not in the atmosphere, but I could
be wrong
if distance to the object is great and shot was from above. I need some
more
opinions. It was from the June shuttle mission. There are many other
smaller objects on parts of the tape, stuff like on STS-48 and 80 footage.
One video of note shows a large glowing orb comes into the frame, the
astronaut starts to use zoom on it, and the controller switches away.
Thank
to Toms Sheets ISUR Board Member. Editor's Note: We are trying to get
some
of these videos on our web site. They look like UFOs to me, but further
analysis is needed.

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